List your invented "fake facts"

[thunderlizard]

Although they appear improvised, most of the sketches in the "Monty Python" TV series were actually scripted word for word in advance.

[thunderlizard]

Pele did not begin his football career until the age of 38.

[thunderlizard]

Foghorn Leghorn cartoons cannot be shown in Germany, because he is deemed to resemble too closely the eagle used in Nazi insignia.

[thunderlizard]

Bob Holness is a full member of the Arapaho tribe.

[Numpty]

Bob Holness is a full member of the Arapaho tribe.

They awarded him that for his sax playing on Jerry Rafferty's Baker Street, and not for being the first James Bond.

[thunderlizard]

Bruce Springsteen's brother, a popular polka violinist, has sold more records than him.

[thunderlizard]

The elastic technology used in the popular toy "Stretch Armstrong" was originally developed by the Soviet military to intercept missiles.

[thunderlizard]

Belonging to a strict Mormon family, Ally Sheedy was educated at home, so when she filmed The Breakfast Club that was the first time she had ever been inside a school.

[norrahe]

Bob Hoskins played the cat in "you only live twice"

[TimberWolf]

When you pass someone who you know on nodding terms and s/he says "how are you doing", this signifies an invitation for you to stop and tell them all your insignificant woes in exquisite detail.